CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA, SAINT

born AD 150, , Athens died , between 211 and 215; Western feast day November 23; Eastern feast day November 24 Latin name Titus Flavius Clemens Christian Apologist, missionary theologian to the Hellenistic (Greek cultural) world, and second known leader and teacher of the catechetical school of Alexandria. The most important of his surviving works is a trilogy comprising the Protreptikos (Exhortation), the Paidagogos (The Instructor), and the Stromateis (Miscellanies). Additional reading Works. O. Stahlin, Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte, vol. 12, 15, 17, 39 (190536), a critical edition of the Greek text; J.P. Migne, Patrologia Graeca, vol. 89 (189091), Greek texts with Latin translations. Translations. W. Wilson, Clement of Alexandria, in The Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1956); S.P. Wood (trans.), Clement of Alexandria, Christ the Educator (1954); J.E.L. Oulton and H. Chadwick, Alexandrian Christianity (1954). For various aspects of Clement's thought, see also C. Bigg, The Christian Platonists of Alexandria (1886, reprinted 1968); E.F. Osborn, The Philosophy of Clement of Alexandria (1957); R.B. Tollinton, Clement of Alexandria: A Study in Christian Liberalism (1914); W. Jaeger, Early Christianity and Greek Paideia (1961); E. Molland, The Conception of the Gospel in the Alexandrian Theology (1938); and H. Chadwick, Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition (1966).